31 Jan 2009 1 Comment
| May 2, 2009 | to | May 4, 2009 |
This year’s Australian Go Camp will be held on the Labour Day weekend at the Ballina Beach Resort, New South Wales. Two-ish days of sun, sand, surf, and go, with An Young Gil 6P flying up from Sydney to teach, and a contingent driving down from Brisbane to play. More details in the flyer.
The Journal will of course be reporting live from the event. :)
29 Jan 2009 No Comments
| June 6, 2009 | to | June 7, 2009 |
The Sydney City Go Club will be holding this year’s New South Wales State Championships. It’ll be held on Saturday 6th June to Sunday 7th June (which is conveniently the Queen’s Birthday long weekend). The venue is Philas House. This is AGA-sanctioned, with all that implies: representative points, etc. For more information, registration, questions, contact Robert Vadas at ravadas@yahoo.com.
25 Jan 2009 3 Comments
All last week I attended the tenth Australasian Linux Conference for professional development. On spec, I packed some light Chinese weiqi boards and some stones. It turns out, if you sit down in a barful (or conference-dinner-ful or exhibition-room-full) of computing geeks and start playing go, some of them will ask you to teach them, or for a game. The picture above is the Go session on the Tuesday.
I didn’t encounter anyone over twentieth kyu in strength, but the dozen or so I did teach were from all over the country. Alas, I could only refer the Adelaide and Sydney and Melbourne ones to their local go clubs. Hobart’s and Perth’s have died, so those people I referred to OGS and the AGA.
21 Jan 2009 2 Comments
We were recently given a couple of photos taken at the Nationals (Brisbane, November 2008), and thought it would be nice to share them.
A more comprehensive report on the Nationals (and more pretty photos!) will be in the coming issue of the Journal proper, so stay tuned!
Reflections of Go
10 Jan 2009 2 Comments
| April 18, 2009 | to | April 19, 2009 |
The Melbourne Go Club will be running the 13th NEC Cup on April 18th & 19th 2009. The venue this year is the Vibe Savoy hotel – 630 Collins St Melbourne. For more information, or to register, contact Brad Melki at bmelki@hotkey.net.au, or read the entry form.
27 Dec 2008 1 Comment
| January 18, 2009 | ||
| 3:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
The All Keio Igo Association has challenged the Brisbane Go Club to a friendly match over the internet in January, with the intent to make this an annual event. The match will take place in the public Australian Room of the KGS Go Server, between a picked team of eleven Keio University alumni and a Brisbane team, plus ring-ins.
The main event kicks off at 3PM Brisbane time (4pm Sydney time, 3:30pm Adelaide time) and is scheduled to take around three hours. An Young Gil 6P (KGS handle younggil), currently based in Sydney, will play a demonstration match against Yamashita-san 9d from Keio, which he will then review. Master Gil is also going to select and review one of the team matches.
All Australian go players are invited to watch any or all of the games and reviews. If you don’t have a KGS account, it is easy enough to log in and create one; KGS is where most of the AGA’s public activities occur, outside of tournaments.
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